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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the distillery after the shootout?
(a) It is shutdown.
(b) It explodes.
(c) It is rebuilt.
(d) It floods.

2. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?
(a) The rebellion of 1798.
(b) The famine of 1740.
(c) The black death of 1348.
(d) The shootout of 1922.

3. Which three males are attacked at the end of the chapter?
(a) The boy, his brother Liam, and their father.
(b) Rory Hannaway, Neil McLaughlin, and the boy's uncle.
(c) Brother Regan, the boy, and his father.
(d) The boy, his father, and Rory Hannaway.

4. Why is the murder case of 1921 thrown out of court?
(a) The murder suspect disappeared.
(b) There wasn't enough evidence.
(c) The murder suspect had a proven alibi.
(d) The evidence was tampered with.

5. How does Rory Hannaway die?
(a) Drowned in the river.
(b) Beaten to death by thieves.
(c) Killed by a reversing lorry.
(d) Contracted meningitis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the boy feel distinctly uncomfortable in Chapter 1?

2. What happens to both Brigid and Larry in Chapter 2?

3. Who is Katie?

4. Who is the heroine of the novel the boy reads in the dark?

5. What color is the light above the graves of Francis and Frances' parents?

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